PhD Fellowship on Interpretable Machine Learning, University of Copenhagen and Pioneer Centre for AI

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The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen and the Pioneer Center for AI, Denmark invite applications for a PhD scholarship in Interpretable Natural Language Understanding with a start date of 1 September 2025. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2025.
Full call details and application link: https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=162869 .

The Natural Language Processing Section at the University of Copenhagen provides a robust, international, and diverse environment for research on both foundational and emerging topics in natural language processing. It is recognized as one of Europe’s leading NLP research environments, ranked among the top-5 in Europe according to CSRankings. Learn more about the Department’s research here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/ . The successful candidate will join the CopeNLU research group, a vibrant and collaborative group led by Isabelle Augenstein and Pepa Atanasova.

The PhD fellowship is offered with Pepa Atanasova as the primary project supervisor, and co-supervised by Isabelle Augenstein. The successful candidate will engage in developing innovative methods for interpreting and explaining the inner workings of natural language processing models. The research will broadly align with the main interests of the primary supervisor and the objectives of the CopeNLU group.

Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Assistant Professor Pepa Atanasova (pe...@di.ku.dk).